Making the most of climate impacts ensembles

Andy Challinor (1, 2) , Pierre Martre (3) , Senthold Asseng (4) , Philip Thornton (5) , Frank Ewert (6)

1 University of Leeds
2 CIAT - International Center for Tropical Agriculture [Colombie]
3 GDEC - Génétique Diversité et Ecophysiologie des Céréales
4 UF - University of Florida [Gainesville]
5 ILRI - International Livestock Research Institution [Edinburg]
6 Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation [Bonn]

Increasing use of regionally and globally oriented impacts studies, coordinated across international modelling groups, promises to bring about a new era in climate impacts research. Coordinated cycles of model improvement and projection are needed to make the most of this potential.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Biologie végétale; Sciences de l'environnement

Andy Challinor, Pierre Martre, Senthold Asseng, Philip Thornton, Frank Ewert. Making the most of climate impacts ensembles. Nature Climate Change, 2014, 4 (2), pp.77-80. ⟨10.1038/nclimate2117⟩. ⟨hal-02640357⟩